I can't imagine this would be expensive. I've used their free solution before and I was very happy with it. I've not used it enough to know how robust it is, and we've only had a few attendees at time.

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I can't imagine this would be expensive. I've used their free solution before and I was very happy with it. I've not used it enough to know how robust it is, and we've only had a few attendees at time.

Oh... hmm. You might check out something like Office Live Meeting, or WebEx, and see if you can utilize the audio conference portion of the services. I really don't know where else you would go with that. That's more of a monthly charge, so you'd have to do a cost analysis of how often you get a meeting together and if it is worth it per minute rather than one cost up front.

I am looking at Live meeting as well for video demonstrations, however for our volunteers that may not be PC ready, calling in seems to be easier. We are looking at a SIP phone system with which has a built in audio conference with 4 brdges that allows you 8 people on each, however for the bigger ones we would need to utilize something else which again raises the cost. I have checked a few other hosted services and so far the cheapest I have found was 3.9 to 4 cents which is better than what we are doing now.

We use MS OCS with meetings. They can be spawned from email chat or from the toolbar. The audio comes from voip but we had a PRI installed for people that can't get to there PC and can dail in. now for the record we also use Cisco UCM for our internal phones so we have multiple PRIs. The glory to all this is you are the owner and have total control Unify your phone system it is the only way to fly.

I have UCM connected to exchange for voicemail all communications are interconnected I even had the cutomer phone system which is Aspect interconnect for least cost call routing because i placed the PRIs spread out to all remote sites to lower local long distance costs.

I know that went a little to the left but I can't seperate communications anymore "Forgive me".